Monday, September 28, 2009

Warts

I know, warts aren't something that people usually brag about. I am bragging that I now finally do not have any warts. After having a wart (that turned into multiple) longer than I have known Michelle, she finally got tired of me complaining about them. One day I came home from work and she told me I had an appointment with the dermatologist to get them frozen off. Well after seeing him every 3 or 4 weeks for 6 months they are finally gone. He would shoot them with liquid nitrogen at each visit (which meant that I would limp for about a week afterwards). Then every night I would soak my foot in warm water, pick off any layers that I could, sand them with an emory board, apply an acid with a Q-tip, put on an acid disk and then cover it with duct tape. I would leave that on overnight and then take it off in the morning. After doing that for far too long, the Dr. finally said that they were gone. Here are a few pictures of the process.



This is from April:

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This is from May:


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This is from June (the purple stuff is an acid that the doctor puts on):
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And this is how they look tonight:


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You can still kind of see where they were, but the Dr. says that they are gone. The skin just needs to continue healing.